About to start feeding this site again after a long break - just checking to see if the spiffy new system works.... Erik D'Amato

Following last week's post on the list of human rights bloggers being assembled by Human Rights Tools, I had an email exchange on what makes a human rights blogger with HRT's editor, Daniel D'Esposito. Daniel noted, correctly, that my... Janet Haven

Oh lucky me, experiencing Christmas as an American child. While I cried on Christmas mornings past when I got Kissing Barbie instead of Etch-a-Sketch, or a bright pink cable-knit sweater instead of the stripey Danskin legwarmers I craved, my Central... Janet Haven

This is a test entry, but the picture above is real.... Janet Haven

Many temporary immigrants will have been granted visas on the basis of their education or skills, so the defence department expects the new recruits to be more qualified than applicants who are US citizens - and in particular to have... Janet Haven

As readers of this blog know, data sets make my heart beat faster. Data sets that have been analyzed/visualized and made to tell a story are even better. The work being done by organizations like the Sunlight Foundation Labs (who... Janet Haven

If you're spending your weekends figuring out how to use 3D geospatial tools to visualize the human impact on climate change, or better yet, you're devising new tools to do Google Earth and ESRI one better, make sure you get... Janet Haven

Will the web 2.0-ness never end? Now we're visualizing shared data sets, with two new projects just launched that encourage users to upload their data sets and map them against each other. Why would you want to do that? Take... Janet Haven

By chance, I came across two new projects within a week dedicated to ending online censorship and surveillance in Middle Eastern countries. The first, OpenArab.net (English here), is a project out of HRInfo.net in Egypt. The Initiative For an Open... Janet Haven

Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, has written a very useful article for the non-technical crowd on country-level internet filtering. "The Geopolitics of Asian Cyberspace", was published in the December issue of the Far... Janet Haven

The O'Reilly gang is putting on a new conference this year called Tools of Change for Publishers. The Civil Society Communications proejct that I run is, of course, very interested in "tools of change" -- although within the non-profit sector... Janet Haven

Admitting that the holidays are really and truly over is a painful act, so despite the fact that I've been back at work this week, I'm posting my Holiday Reading List Book Reviews as if I were still at leisure.... Janet Haven

Ethan tagged me in a little bloggame going around to spill five things about yourself that people don't know about you. So here are the first five that come to mind: 1. Because I've lived a big chunk of my... Janet Haven

One more note on communications resources for the developing world -- some useful new publications have hit the stands over the past few months: IT46+, a consultancy has released The Voip Primer: Building Voice Infrastructure in Developing Regions. Written, edited,... Janet Haven

As it turns out, if wireless networking on the African continent is one of your favorite things, spending your weekend in the basement of APC’s London partner GreenNet with forty of your closest collaborators (and friends) can be a grand... Janet Haven

So, this is weird. For the second time this fall, I’ve flown internationally out of Heathrow airport without going through immigration or having anyone, other than airline employees, look at my passport. The first trip was from London to Johannesburg... Janet Haven

Our friends over at the Media Development Loan Fund’s Center for Advanced Media Prague (CAMP) have released version 1.1 (“Freetown”) of Campcaster, the long-awaited open source radio station management software. Using Campcaster, community radio stations can manage broadcasts, archives and... Janet Haven

The NY Times' recent article, "Open-Source Spying", chronicles a knowledge management project writ large. The author discusses the US intelligence community's tentative use of knowledge-sharing tools like blogs and wikis to exchange information across and within agencies in an ad-hoc... Janet Haven

Pakistani Taliban militants who are in control of the Swat valley in the region announced a ceasefire tonight, reacting to the government's agreement to bring in sharia courts.... Janet Haven

Many temporary immigrants will have been granted visas on the basis of their education or skills, so the defence department expects the new recruits to be more qualified than applicants who are US citizens - and in particular to have... Janet Haven